A coming event: Public Health Striptease: A Feminist Science Reading of Dr. Bodnar’s Ig Nobel Prize-Winning Emergency Bra Baltimore Under Ground Science Space, Baltimore, MD Friday, November 15, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EST) Well up pops Dr. Clare Jen, a researcher at UMd College Park based at Denisen U, wanting to interview the women […]
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The bra inspired by the Chernobyl disaster
Sara Kenigsberg‘s video report, for her Northwestern University class in 2009, about how the Chernobyl power plant disaster inspired Dr. Elena Bodnar to invent the (Ig Nobel Prize-winning) brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks. The bra has since gone into production, and is now used […]
Emergency Bra press conference today
Scroll down for a post-press-conference update. Dr. Elena Bodnar will hold a press conference today, Tuesday, Sept 28, at 11:00 am — at the MIT Museum to announce that her Ig Nobel Prize-winning Emergency Bra is now available to the public, and to present a new invention (a counterpart device to be worn by men). […]